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Descriptor English: Esophagus
Descriptor Spanish: Esófago
Descriptor esófago
Scope note: Conducto muscular de longitud aproximada de 24 cm que se extiende desde la faringe hasta el estómago. Es la parte más estrecha del tubo digestivo, situándose su zona más estenosada en el punto en el que atraviesa el diafragma. Está constituido por una capa fibrosa, una capa muscular y está tapizado por una membrana mucosa. (Diccionario Mosby. 5a ed. Madrid: Harcourt España, 2000, p.479).
Descriptor Portuguese: Esôfago
Descriptor French: Oesophage
Tree number(s): A03.556.875.500
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004947
Scope note: The muscular membranous segment between the PHARYNX and the STOMACH in the UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT.
Annotation: /blood supply: ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES is available: see note there; /surg: consider also ESOPHAGECTOMY; ESOPHAGOPLASTY; or ESOPHAGOSTOMY; inflammation = ESOPHAGITIS; hemorrhage = ESOPHAGEAL DISEASES (IM) + GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE (NIM); rupture: index under ESOPHAGUS /inj (IM) + RUPTURE (NIM) or ESOPHAGEAL DISEASES (IM) + RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS (NIM); peristalsis of the esophagus = ESOPHAGUS /physiol (IM) + PERISTALSIS (NIM); esophageal intubation = ESOPHAGUS (IM) + INTUBATION (IM); esophageal obturator airway = ESOPHAGUS (IM) + INTUBATION /instrum (IM)
Allowable Qualifiers: AB malformations
AH anatomie et histologie
BS vascularisation
CH composition chimique
CY cytologie
DE effets des médicaments et des substances chimiques
DG imagerie diagnostique
EM embryologie
EN enzymologie
GD croissance et développement
IM immunologie
IN traumatismes
IR innervation
ME métabolisme
MI microbiologie
PA anatomopathologie
PH physiologie
PP physiopathologie
PS parasitologie
RE effets des radiations
SU chirurgie
TR transplantation
UL ultrastructure
VI virologie
Related: Oesophagectomie MeSH
Oesophagoplastie MeSH
Oesophagoscopie MeSH
Oesophagostomie MeSH
DeCS ID: 5036
Unique ID: D004947
NLM Classification: WI 250
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2005/07/13
Oesophage - Preferred
Concept UI M0007761
Preferred term Oesophage



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